_Avatar_, directed by James Cameron

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My impression was that the military were perfectly well aware of where the unobotanium or whatever fuck was located right from the beginning. I didn't think Sigourney Weaver was interested in that aspect of the planet at all - it was quite separate to the organic internet garbage. The military's main interest in a Navii infiltrator from what I gleaned from the endless montages was to find out the structure of the tree itself because they couldn't scan it from orbit or something. Which if correct doesn't make any sense if they could just obliterate the whole thing at any point. To be honest, the film is already sliding out of my mind less than 24 hours later so I could have misunderstood all of this.

Thing is I am perfectly willing to overlook the conceits of science fiction and fantasy movies/literature, if they can deliver elsewhere, but when an SF film has an incredibly paper thin plot, half-arsed characerisation, formulaic dialogue etc it makes you less willing to swallow all the plot holes.

My impression was that the military were perfectly well aware of where the unobotanium or whatever fuck was located right from the beginning.

yep. lang said that the unobtanium trade was what paid for the weave's science.

were still using mechas with machine guns on them

mechas with machine guns AND BACK-UP KNIVES in case something happened to the machine gun.

hooray we disabled the robot's machine gun!

OH SHIT IT HAS A KNIFE

this movie was so goddamn boring btw, i thought the visuals would be worth it but they weren't

Glimpses of blue nipples made me ignore a lot of the plot holes.

hahah

lol my friends email:

"Saw avatar in IMAX 3d last night high on pot brownies. Was literally
most overwhelming experience of my life. Had about five panic attacks."

http://failblog.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/epic-fail-avatar-plot-fail.jpg

i think the thing that bothered me most was the name - "unobotanium". seriously.

Very stupid. But as explained up thread, "Unobtainium" was a jokey working title for the substance that ended up sticking :(

http://gameinformer.com/cfs-filesystemfile.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Components.ImageFileViewer/CommunityServer.Blogs.Components.WeblogFiles.00.00.00.21.22/3806.unobtainium.jpg_2D00_610x0.jpg

i actually liked the name unobtainium

Unobtanium has a long, long sci-fi history, as stupid as the name may be.

this was amazing and stupid

Unobtanium has a long, long sci-fi history, as stupid as the name may be.

are you serious?!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unobtainium

cameron guilty of utilizing ancient sci-fi tropes shockah

he didn't even bother coming up with a new name! it'd be like calling a dude in your mystery movie "macguffin"

i kinda wishe'd done that. also should have named the protagonist gyro goodman

hey i guessed right! wayne barlow did do "creature design" on this.

roger dean needs his credit tho

xp lol

what the fuck is going on with this movie. i went to go see buy a ticket yesterday and there was a lineup zigzagging through the entire theater, through the adjacent tim horton's, and out the door into the freezing cold then around the corner. hasn't it been out for a month already?

oh and james horner is still horrible

and i thought this movie would be the go-to punchline to jokes about box office failures for the next few years.

wonder if cameron found a wish-granting mermaid on one of his deep sea dives

he was probably blue and eight feet long

I mean she

O_O

i see you

he didn't even bother coming up with a new name! it'd be like calling a dude in your mystery movie "macguffin"

― chartres (goole), Sunday, January 10, 2010 11:05 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest

lol word for word my brother said that when we came out of the theater

A PDF of the Avatar script (I think official?):

http://www.foxscreenings.com/media/pdf/JamesCameronAVATAR.pdf

i'm starting to feel really bad for the avatar last airbender people that they didn't get their movie out first, those guys are fucked now

they're just calling it "the last airbender" now. anyway it's being directed by m. night shyamalan so it was fucked to begin with.

oh well good/bad for them.

Who the fuck let Shyamalalalananan direct another film?!

The twist ending will be that it really IS a remake of Avatar.

^^^^^ this. How much longer can he ride The Sixth Sense to make shitty film after shitty film? I'm assuming thats the only one of his movies that did enough box office bank to keep allowing this to happen.

i actually liked the name unobtainium

― fella, cutie (s1ocki), Monday, 11 January 2010 01:53 (13 hours ago)

yeah ditto, it felt a bit Futurama tho

not to turn this into a Shyamalan thread, but Signs made a ton of money too and as directors go he's still probably one of the more consistently profitable ones out there, regardless of how divisive he is

I forgot about Signs, but I was under the impression that his last couple had really tanked.

nah happening was a minor hit US-wise and did well internationally, lady in the water is his only real stink bomb (with The Village actually doing pretty good for a movie with no stars about scared quakers in the woods or wtfever, really)

SBing the next person to make lol shyamalan last name joke, c'mon ppl

a movie with no stars

Poor William Hurt.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/11/avatar.movie.blues/index.html

wtf

A post by a user called Elequin expresses an almost obsessive relationship with the film.

"That's all I have been doing as of late, searching the Internet for more info about 'Avatar.' I guess that helps. It's so hard I can't force myself to think that it's just a movie, and to get over it, that living like the Na'vi will never happen. I think I need a rebound movie," Elequin posted.

actually what you need is called "therapy"

headinhands.jpg in a major way

also possibly "a smack"

Other fans have expressed feelings of disgust with the human race

Given this story, you don't even need to be a fan to feel that.

reads like an Onion article

Who would have ever guessed that Hollywood's problem was not that blockbusters were too big, but that they weren't BIG ENOUGH! Now's the time for you aspiring filmmakers to pitch your own $500 million movies.

seriously, reactions to this movie are making me hate it way more than the movie itself ever could